Instructor: Justin Jeffress

Solutions Architect at Amazon Alexa, serves developers building voice-first applications as an evangelist and mentor. He has over 9 years experience in backend development and worked for a celebrity in High Fashion. He is obsessed with languages both human and computer. For insights into Alexa Skills Kit, voice design and occasional tweets in Japanese follow him at @SleepyDeveloper.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Klug

Cloud Computing Option Head and an instructor in the School of Computing and Academic Studies at the BCIT. He teaches three courses in cloud computing: Cloud Computing Platforms, DevOps Engineering and Serverless Computing & Microservices. Prior to teaching, he spent 15 years developing software systems for credit unions in the U.S., Canada and England. He also serves as a member of the AWS Educate Educators Roundtable.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lubik

Co-director of Technology Entrepreneurship, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at SFU, the Marketing Director of Lungfish Dive Systems and a certified expert business/marketing coach at SFU’s Venture Connection incubator. Sarah has published in leading technology management journals such as R&D Management, Technovation and Long Range Planning. Her research is currently focused on stimulating and supporting university-based entrepreneurship with a focus on interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and innovation, and commercialization.

Details...

Understand how to navigate through the Amazon development portal for creating a new Skill Blueprint and Lambda Functions

Understand how to implement Voice-First apps in real situations (e.g. healthcare) by connecting with industry experts

Deploy and interact with your first Alexa Skill in the Amazon Echo Simulator

FAQ

Any questions or concerns? We’re happy to help at contact@designlablive.com

What do I need to bring?

You will need to bring a laptop running Linux, MacOS, or Windows. We’ll send you details to set up your environment before the workshop. Don’t forget your charger!

What is the workshop like?

This is a tech workshop, so you’ll be in a classroom setting where the instructor and mentors will be available to help during the lessons to develop cool voice-first apps!

Do I need a background in voice-first design?

Nope! We don’t expect our attendees to have a background in any voice-first technology. However, having some programming background will be very helpful.

What are we making during the workshop?

You’ll be guided along a lesson to create some voice-activated skills (or capabilities) for voice-activated apps, for example, to play music or set an alarm. Our instructor and mentors are available to help with anything during this time.

Why is the price so low?

We are able to put on this workshop at a beautiful venue with catered lunch with the help of our amazing sponsor, SFU Beedie School of Business!

I’ve signed up! What now?

You should receive an email about workshop details from Design Lab. If you haven’t received it by Wednesday, March 7th, please email us at contact@designlablive.com and we’ll get it sorted out!

Thank you to our Sponsor for their support! We couldn't have pulled it off without them.

About Design Lab

Design Lab is a tech community organization solving problems in different areas using technology. We recently produced lumohacks, a 500-person hackathon in Vancouver, to improve the lives of people facing mental health challenges, and we are currently looking at solving healthcare problems using technology.
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